Global Supply Manager Mechanicals
EtchedVisit Etched website
Etched is an AI-hardware company building rack-scale frontier inference clusters.
San Jose, United States
Funding history
About Etched
Etched co-designs chips, racks, software, and manufacturing systems for efficient inference of frontier AI models, targeting throughput, latency, cost, and power efficiency across prefill and decode workloads.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will develop sourcing strategies for mechanical components and assemblies, manage global suppliers, negotiate supply agreements, and support production ramps. You will partner on DFM, material selection, supplier qualification, cost analysis, build readiness, and mitigation of capacity, tooling, yield, and regional supply risks.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Supply Chain, or a related field
- At least 7 years of sourcing or commodity-management experience for mechanical hardware components
- Understanding of sheet metal, CNC machining, die casting, extrusion, and finishing processes
- Experience partnering with mechanical engineering teams on DFM, tolerancing, and material selection
- Experience managing supplier relationships and negotiating high-value contracts
- Cost modeling, should-cost analysis, and BOM evaluation skills
- Experience scaling mechanical supply for NPI and high-volume production
- Experience managing global suppliers, particularly across Asia
- Experience with datacenter hardware, server enclosures, or rack-level mechanical systems
- Familiarity with thermal solutions, including heat sinks, cold plates, liquid cooling integration, and airflow management
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies for mechanical components and assemblies
- Build and manage relationships with fabrication partners, contract manufacturers, and integrators
- Negotiate pricing, tooling, NREs, and long-term supply agreements
- Partner on DFM, material selection, and supplier qualification
- Drive cost modeling, should-cost analysis, and benchmarking
- Ensure suppliers meet tolerance, cosmetic, and thermal-mechanical performance specifications
- Identify and mitigate capacity, tooling, yield, and regional supply risks
- Align sourcing with NPI schedules, product ramps, and datacenter deployment timelines
- Support pilot builds and ramp readiness
- Present sourcing strategies, cost tradeoffs, and supply risks to executive leadership
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
- $2,500 per month housing subsidy for employees living within walking distance of the office
- Relocation support to San Jose
- Wellness benefits covering fitness and mental health
- Daily office lunch and dinner
- Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification